A batch of more than four million Abdala vaccines against covid-19 arrived in Mexico this Friday from Cuba, according to authorities in the North American country.
The shipment, which included in total 4,530,000 vaccines manufactured by the Center for Genetic and Biotechnological Engineering of Cuba and purchased by the Mexican government, arrived at the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), in Mexico City, the newspaper reported. The universal.
The Ministry of Health reported that, From January 26 to date, 7,381,800 Abdala vaccines have arrived in Mexico.
Shipments of the Cuban drug began in November 2022 after the signing of agreements by both allied governments.
The application of The vaccine has provoked criticism and rejection among professionals in the Mexican medical sector and politicians, and has been received with distrust by the population., because The World Health Organization (WHO) has not yet given its endorsement to this or any of the Cuban vaccines against the coronavirus; and its effectiveness would be proven only against the original virus and not to deal with new variants of the germ.
However, the Mexican Health authority once again emphasized this week that the vaccine is “safe, effective, of quality and is authorized by Cofepris for emergency use and will be used to reinforce the National Winter Vaccination Campaign 2023-2024,” he said. the local newspaper.
In October 2023, a total of 2,851,000 doses arrived in Mexico of the Cuban drug, despite the multiple and continuous questions about the vaccination plan with the drug in that country.
The Mexican government has opted for Cuban vaccines since its inception, despite the continuous irregularities that have occurred in their application in national territory.
Workers of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) of the state of Morelos They reported last October that their bosses forced them to give expired doses of Abdala.
The complainants released photos of the bottles whose doses corresponded to batch A182029, with an expiration date of August 2023.
In February of that same year, The government of the state of Jalisco refused to supply the drug because it did not have approval from the WHO..
As stated in a statement Officially, the Abdala vaccine would not be applied in health units run by the government of Jalisco, and alleged that “it does not have WHO endorsement” and “there is, to date, no evidence of its efficacy and safety, nor as a scheme initial nor as a reinforcement.”
At the end of 2022, the immunizer had been offered as the only option to the citizens of the Mexican capital and, between December 21 of that year and January 24, 2023 Not even 2,500 doses were administered per day. Only one percent of the population opted to receive the dose.
In an attempt to demonstrate the value of the Cuban medicine, the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador gave a boost to Cuban vaccines by giving himself a dose of Abdala in public, at the end of last October, after his usual morning press conference.
The government of Mexico announced in September 2022 the signing of a agreement with Cuba for the purchase of nine million doses of the Abdala vaccine, which would be used in children between five and 11 years old.
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